- Production: Lucia di Lammermoor, 2026
- Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
- Librettist: Salvatore Cammarano
- Company: Immling Festival
- Venue: Immling Festspielhaus
- Country: Germany
- Start Date: June 2026
- End Date: July 2027
Creative Team
- Director: Ella Marchment
- Assistant Director: Adriana Rio
- Choreographer: Adam Haigh
- Costume Designer: Sascha Thomsen
- Lighting Designer: Arndt Sellenti
- Set Designer: Philomena Strack
- Video Designer: Maximilian Ulrich
Production Team
- Costume Assistant: Cornelia Blumstein
- Make-up and Wig Designer: Annegret Eyrich
- Make-up and Wig Assistant: Marie Ardey
- Make-up Artist: Karin Kainz
- Production and Logistics Technician: Gaby Schrott
- Production and Logistics Technician: Klaus Meyer
- Props Manager: Matthias Wachter
- Props Supervisor: Zorah Seitz
- Stage Manager: Alexander Hilbig
- Wardrobe Manager: Gabriele Henseler
- Wardrobe Assistant: Barbara Boschner
Musicians
- Conductor: Sergi Roca Bru
- Répétiteur: Alexander Livenson
- Chorus: Immling Festival Choir
- Orchestra: Immling Festival Orchestra
Cast
- Performer: Inna Fedorii
- Role: Lucia Ashton
- Description: The heroine
- Performer: Carlo Raffaelli
- Role: Edgardo di Ravenswood
- Description: Lucia’s true love
- Performer: Gunnar Björn Jónsson
- Role: Lord Arturo Bucklaw
- Description: Lucia’s short-lived husband
- Performer: Alexey Bogdanchikov
- Role: Lord Enrico Ashton
- Description: Lucia’s brother
- Performer: Matteo D’Apolito
- Role: Raimondo Bidebent
- Description: Chaplain
- Performer: Baurzhan Anderzhanov
- Role: Raimondo Bidebent
- Description: Chaplain
- Performer: Olaia Lamata
- Role: Alisa
- Description: Lucia’s maid
- Performer: Lukas Gahabka
- Role: Normanno
- Description: Lord Enrico’s huntsman
Programme
Synopsis
Forbidden love, madness, and a blood-soaked wedding night.
Lucia di Lammermoor is a tragic tale of feuding families and fractured sanity set in the seventeenth-century Scottish Highlands (derived from the Old English term for ‘lambs’ moor’, Lammermoor is the anglicized name for the Lammermuir Hills in southern Scotland).
The story focuses on Lucia Ashton, a woman caught in a power struggle orchestrated by her brother Enrico. To save their family’s declining fortunes, Enrico demands that Lucia marry the wealthy Lord Arturo, unaware that she has secretly pledged her heart to her family’s sworn enemy, Edgardo di Ravenswood. Before Edgardo departs for France on a political mission, the lovers exchange rings and vows of eternal fidelity.
While Edgardo is away, Enrico intercepts letters to Lucia and presents her with a forged document claiming that her lover has been unfaithful. Overwhelmed by her loss and under pressure from her family, Lucia reluctantly signs a marriage contract with Arturo. At that moment, Edgardo returns and curses Lucia for her apparent betrayal, causing Lucia to experience a complete emotional breakdown.
On her wedding night, Lucia murders Arturo in their bridal chamber. She then wanders into the wedding feast—in the opera’s famous ‘mad scene’—hallucinating a reunion with Edgardo and then collapsing to her death. On learning of Lucia’s demise and innocence, Edgardo stabs himself to be with her in the afterlife.
Reviews
PNP.de
Between love and delusion: standing ovations at the premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor
An opera night of superlatives
Every line carries pain, every ornamental figure looks like a cry from a world that slips away from it – a shocking portrait of the soul and a singing brilliance, which in Immling can confidently be regarded as a highlight in 30 years of opera art
Captivating and emotionally charged, with a gripping conclusion – a hit in every respect
OVB Heimatzeitungen
What Gaetano Donizetti has captured in vibrant music that essentially tells its own story, the director must translate into images: no easy task. Ella Marchment accomplishes this with impressive rigour
Klassik Heute
A rare chance to experience Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor in an extraordinary production by British director Ella Marchment, which has been praised by the press and captivated audiences
RFO.de
In Lucia di Lammermoor, Immling Festival presents an opera that nearly 200 years after its premiere still packs an emotional punch. A story of love, control, and social pressure, made vivid by unforgettable music and an inventive staging that reaches meaningfully into the present day
Video
Photos
All photos (C) Mariella Weiss and Nicole Richter Bossmann, Immling Festival